Name
Daniel Sampford
10 November 1878
Conflict
First World War
Date of Death / Age
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
Private
29349
Royal Engineers
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
1914 (Mons) Star, British War and Victory Medals
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
Headstone Inscription
N/A
UK & Other Memorials
Not on the Bishop's Stortford memorials
Pre War
Dan Sampford was born on 10 November 1878 in Hockerill, Bishop's Stortford to Joseph and Sarah Ann Sampford and baptised at Hockerill on 24 January 1879. The family lived at London Road, Bishop's Stortford on the 1881 Census, where his father was a maltmaker. He married Annie Sapsford on 28 November 1903 at Bishop's Stortford Registry Office. On the 1901 Census he was listed as a Driver in the Telegraph Battalion of the Royal Engineers at Aldershot. On the 1911 Census he was living with his wife and 4 children at 131 London Road, South Mill, Bishop's Stortford and working as a Platelayer on the Great Eastern Railway. They later lived at 119 London Road and had two more children.
A newspaper report refers to his connection to Bishop's Stortford.
He enlisted into the Royal Engineers under reg. no. 29349 on 20 January 1896, aged 18, for 3 years with the colours and 9 years in the reserve. He transferred to 1st Class Army Reserve on 19 January 1899. and he was recalled on 9 October 1899. He served in South Africa until 1902. He was then re-engaged on 20 January 1908 for a short period and then re-engaged again on 20 January 1912 for four years.
Wartime Service
Dan was again recalled at the outbreak of war and served in France from 5 November 1914. He survived the war and was again put on reserve on 26 March 1919. He died on 2 April 1921 in Bishops Stortford, his death said to be as a result of gas poisoning in the trenches. It is recorded on pension records as "congestion of lungs".
Additional Information
Comment on his widow's pension application records says his death was not due to service and was refused on 24 August 1921.
Acknowledgments
Brenda Palmer
